The Nico Mastorakis Collection Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		2.5
Video		4.0
Audio		4.0
Extras		4.0
Overall		3.0

The Nico Mastorakis Collection Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman July 30, 2024

Arrow Video has been cultivating a really rather sweet relationship with Greek writer and director Nico Mastorakis for several years, bringing out any number of Mastorakis' films, including .com for Murder, Nightmare at Noon, Death Has Blue Eyes, The Wind, The Zero Boys, Hired to Kill and Island of Death. Mastorakis quite frequently uses some incredibly luscious Greek locations for films that might otherwise not be much above what the back cover of this release overtly mentions as "B movie" levels, and that's once again the case with the sextet of films offered in this nicely packaged new set. That said, even when the films stray from the stunning Greek locations, there's another kind of "scenery" regularly on hand in these films courtesy of a bevy of beautiful women, often in little to no clothing. This collection has a rather broad range of subject matter as well as tonal proclivities, and makes a pretty cogent case that Mastorakis can be at least decently facile in any number of genres.

For reviews of the films in this set, please click on the following links:

The Time Traveller Blu-ray review

Sky High Blu-ray review

Terminal Exposure Blu-ray review

Glitch! Blu-ray review

Ninja Academy Blu-ray review

The Naked Truth Blu-ray review

The Nico Mastorakis Collection Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

Video quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Nico Mastorakis Collection Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

Audio quality is assessed in the above linked reviews.

The Nico Mastorakis Collection Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

Supplements on each disc are detailed in the above linked reviews. Additionally, this is another nicely packaged release from Arrow, with three keepcases (two films to each disc) enclosed in a nicely designed slipbox (which is itself surrounded by an O ring), which also holds a really nice 38 page booklet with information on all the films and an essay by Barry Forshaw. The keepcases each feature reversible sleeves, with artwork for each of the movies on any given disc on opposite sides.

The Nico Mastorakis Collection Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Nico Mastorakis may well be an acquired taste, but this set, while probably unintentionally pointing out some of the deficits of Mastorakis' general oeuvre, has a surprisingly wide array of subjects, and you just can't go wrong with those Greek locations. Technical merits understandably vary between the features, but are generally solid, and the supplements very enjoyable, for anyone who may be considering making a purchase.